Hopefully fixed the link!

Ok, I have re-done the link to the volcano photos and it should work fine of you copy and paste the link in your browser.

Carlos and I started picking out charcoal today from some of the samples we collected, so that we can date the eruptions using Carbon 14 isotope dating (we don't actually do it, we just collect the charcoal and send it off to a lab somewhere). Any trees and branches which were burnt during the eruption, usually by pyroclastic flows, will be able to give us a date to within 60 or so years, which when the eruptions we're looking at are in the region of 5000 years ago, is pretty good.

At first I was all excited and felt like a detective sifting through dirt looking for critical pieces of evidence! A volcano detective! But after 2 hours of sitting hunched over a pile of ash and soil picking out 1mm size bits of charcoal, the novelty wore off. I wasn't born with patience as one of my virtues!

But I get a break from the lab tomorrow as Carlos and I are heading back up Nevado to do some fieldwork! Hooray!